- Anthony Scaramucci, who served 11 days as director of communications at the White House in 2017, called President Donald Trump’s decision to speak “ridiculous” every four nights of the Republican National Convention during a performance on Sunday on CNN.
- While the nominee of a party typically speaks on the last night of the convention to formally accept the nomination for the top of the ticket, Trump will speak on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
- Family members of President Trump form half of the keynote speakers at this week’s convention, which will begin on Monday.
- “He thinks it’s all about him, him all the time,” Scaramucci said. “The classic narcissism is to destroy everyone around you and then show everyone that you can do it alone. You can do it yourself.”
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Anthony Scaramucci, who spent 11 days as White House communications director before being removed from office, said Sunday that President Donald Trump exposed “classic narcissism” by speaking every night of the Republican National Convention. .
As Business Insider previously reported, Trump plans to speak every four nights of the Republican National Convention, scheduled to begin on Monday. According to The New York Times, he will speak at night during the 10 o’clock hour of the convention, which will be mostly virtual after the president has insisted on a personal event for months.
“But, knowing his personality, he thinks it’s the right way for him to do it. He thinks it’s all about him, him all the time,” Scaramucci told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday during a broadcast of “State of the Union.” “The classic narcissism is to destroy everyone around you and then show everyone that you can do it alone. You can do it yourself.”
He went on to say, “It’s all about me and see me. I’ll win this without your help. And so I’m sure he was advised by some smart, somewhat courageous people in the campaign not to do that. That level of satiety is further ridiculous. “
—State of the Union (@CNNSotu) August 23, 2020
As Business Insider noted earlier, it is typical for a party’s nominee to speak only on the last night of the convention in a speech to formalize their nomination to the top of their party’s ticket. Former Vice President Joe Biden, for example, delivered a speech from Delaware last Thursday – the last night of his party’s virtual convention.
Last week’s Democratic National Convention included a broad coalition of speakers, including Democrats such as former President Barack Obama, and First Lady Michelle Obama, and some Republicans, including former Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Members of the president’s family include half of the list of keynote speakers who plan to address Republicans at the event, as Business Insider noted earlier. George W. Bush, the only living Republican former president, has not been appointed to speak at the convention that Trump will accept the official GOP nomination for president. Bush also sat out the 2016 convention.
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